My generation grew up with cartoons filmed in the 30s, and 40s
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They were filled with references to movies and real life movie stars. I was a bit flabbergasted to watch the original movies as an adult and finally *get* the references. The most shocking was to watch Casablanca. I never knew all those famous quotes were from that movie. I only knew them from cartoons or maybe variety comedy shows and the like.

Here's the reference I got (as an adult) from my childhood.

My Dad didn't swear a *lot* but he did swear and he had strong opinions (gee, I bet that doesn't surprise people who know me). Anyhow, when he thought someone was particularly stupid, he would say, "He doesn't know sh!t from Shinola."

I guess I didn't think about it a lot but if I did, I thought Shinola was just a made up word that didn't mean anything in particular.